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Blackouts : a novel
Edité par Granta Books - 2024
Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him. As the end approaches, the two trade stories and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served. Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure. National Book Award 2024